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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1655396, member: 66&quot;]Yes, the Civil War.&nbsp; The war caused all the prescious metal coinage to either be melted, exported, or hoarded so why produce a lot of coins that wouldn&#039;t circulate anyway?&nbsp; Mintages plummeted.&nbsp; Then in the 1870&#039;s when the hoarded coins came back they caused a glut of coinage in the federal vaults and must was melted and recoined.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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